The White House says Truth Social is the ‘most powerful and popular social media platform in the world’
The White House says Truth Social is the ‘most powerful and popular social media platform in the world’
白宫称“真实社交”（Truth Social）是“世界上最强大、最受欢迎的社交媒体平台”
The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the “most powerful and popular social media platform in the world.” The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some of the biggest social media platforms on the web. 白宫声称，由唐纳德·特朗普拥有的“真实社交”（Truth Social）是“世界上最强大、最受欢迎的社交媒体平台”。这一由白宫发言人戴维斯·英格（Davis Ingle）提供给《纽约时报》的声明，与网络上一些大型社交媒体平台的实际用户数量相矛盾。
Data gathered by Search Engine Land shows YouTube is the most popular platform in the world, with 2.65 billion monthly active users. Facebook comes in second with 2.39 billion active users around the globe, followed by TikTok with 2.21 billion and Instagram with 1.99 billion. Truth Social doesn’t make Search Engine Land’s top 10 list, which shows Elon Musk’s X and Meta’s Threads at the bottom with 450 million and 223 million users, respectively. Even those platforms trail Pinterest, which is listed with 579 million global users. 根据 Search Engine Land 收集的数据显示，YouTube 是全球最受欢迎的平台，拥有 26.5 亿月活跃用户。Facebook 以 23.9 亿全球活跃用户位居第二，紧随其后的是 TikTok（22.1 亿）和 Instagram（19.9 亿）。“真实社交”并未进入 Search Engine Land 的前十名榜单；该榜单显示，埃隆·马斯克的 X 和 Meta 的 Threads 分别以 4.5 亿和 2.23 亿用户排在末尾。即便是这些平台，其用户数也落后于拥有 5.79 亿全球用户的 Pinterest。
Truth Social’s traffic appears to be declining. As reported by the NYT, data from Similarweb suggests that the number of monthly visitors to Truth Social dipped 36 percent in July compared to the same time last year. From January to July 2025, an average of 28 million people visited Truth Social each month, while this number fell to 25 million during the first seven months of 2026, according to the NYT. Last month, Truth Social launched its $100,000 / month subscription to gain early access to posts from Trump and other prominent users, raising concerns about corruption. “真实社交”的流量似乎正在下滑。据《纽约时报》报道，Similarweb 的数据显示，与去年同期相比，7 月份“真实社交”的月访问量下降了 36%。据《纽约时报》统计，2025 年 1 月至 7 月，每月平均有 2800 万人访问“真实社交”，而这一数字在 2026 年的前七个月降至 2500 万。上个月，“真实社交”推出了每月 10 万美元的订阅服务，用户付费后可抢先查看特朗普及其他知名人士的帖子，此举引发了对腐败问题的担忧。
The NYT report details Trump’s posting patterns on Truth Social, which often include AI-generated images, such as one showing his head on Hulk Hogan’s body and another hitting a cut-out of Iran with a hammer brandishing the American flag. Ingle cites President Trump’s “authentic voice” as the reason for the platform’s so-called popularity, adding it’s where “he communicates directly with the American people and the world without the biased media taking him out of context.” 《纽约时报》的报道详细描述了特朗普在“真实社交”上的发帖模式，其中经常包含人工智能生成的图像，例如一张将他的头像合成到浩克·霍根（Hulk Hogan）身体上的照片，以及另一张他挥舞着印有美国国旗的锤子击打伊朗剪影的照片。英格将特朗普总统的“真实声音”作为该平台所谓受欢迎的原因，并补充说，这是他“在没有偏见媒体断章取义的情况下，直接与美国人民和世界沟通的地方”。